Historic Mitchell Street
A neighborhood in Milwaukee
Historic Mitchell Street, on Milwaukee's south side, evolved from deep Polish roots into a neighborhood with a strong Hispanic character. Its live-music history runs through the now-dormant Modjeska Theater, where music lovers once flocked to see acts like the Dismemberment Plan, Descendents, and Guided by Voices in the '90s and early aughts. Today the street's dedicated music venue is MKeUltra. A DIY performance space and recording studio run by musicians, it sits at 1535 W. Mitchell St., just blocks from where the empty Modjeska still stands. MKeUltra runs multiple shows a week and welcomes acts of all sounds and styles, in a room with a maximum capacity of 49 and a wood-floor stage set before a red curtain. By mid-2025 the venue was hosting about 15 shows a month, and it has since added recurring DJ nights and monthly art gallery nights. The venue supplies a backline drum kit and guitar and bass cabinets free of charge to performing acts. Tickets typically run $10–$15, and shows are all ages, 21+ for alcohol.
Venues1
- MKeUltra1535 W Mitchell St, Milwaukee
Upcoming shows26
Today · Monday, July 20 · 1 show
Tomorrow · Tuesday, July 21 · 1 show
Thursday, July 23 · 1 show
MILWAUKEE HARDCORE Presents: world i hate; the consequence (DEN); lavender (CHI); human cost
Hardcore · Hardcore punk · Powerviolence
Doors 6:30pm
$15 DOS
Friday, July 24 · 1 show
X-RAY ARCADE Presents: trace amount (NYC); lunacy; insula iscariot (MAD); paralyze
Industrial · Noise · Electronic
Doors 6:00pm
$15 ADV; $18 DOS
Saturday, July 25 · 1 show
Sunday, July 26 · 1 show
Tuesday, July 28 · 1 show
lord buffalo (ATX); old wolves; cassini echoes; the paper flames
Psychedelic · Dark folk · Freak folk
Doors 6:30pm
$12 ADV; $15 DOS
Wednesday, July 29 · 1 show
ENGRADIENT RECORDS Presents: deadzone a.d. (CHI); pyramyd; kingfisher; gashade
Doors 6:30pm
$10 ADV; $15 DOS
Thursday, July 30 · 1 show
Friday, July 31 · 1 show
diet lite; broken demeanor (CHI); courtesy
Wisconsin · Garage · Milwaukee
Doors 7:30pm
$10 ADV; $10 DOS
Saturday, August 1 · 1 show
cairo jag (IN); resurrectionists; mark adams son of bill; stoneyard (SEA)
Psychedelic Rock · Rock · Dirty Rock
Doors 7:00pm
$12 ADV; $15 DOS
Monday, August 3 · 1 show
MILWAUKEE HARDCORE Presents: morbid visionz (AR); new found power (CHI); world of fear; backstabber
Death metal
Doors 6:30pm
$15 DOS
Tuesday, August 4 · 1 show
naomi 10 million (CHI); my house walkthrough (CHI); frantic repair; araf
Experimental Rock · Art rock · Noise rock
Doors 6:30pm
$10 ADV; $15 DOS
Thursday, August 6 · 1 show
colin self (NYC); it's you! it's me! and there's dancing! (PDX); surgery season (PDX); buena cara; orangecoloredsky
Experimental · Berlin · Pop
Doors 6:30pm
$15 ADV; $15 DOS
Friday, August 7 · 1 show
Saturday, August 8 · 1 show
Friday, August 21 · 1 show
X-RAY ARCADE Presents: fallfiftyfeet (WV); bird law (IL); zipbomb (MAD); agita
Mathcore · Metalcore · Hardcore
Doors 6:00pm
$12 ADV; $15 DOS
Thursday, August 27 · 1 show
starved (IA); parasite (WI); oroboros (IA); drillbit (WI)
Metalcore · Black metal · DSBM
Doors 6:30pm
$10 ADV; $15 DOS
Friday, August 28 · 1 show
blind hill; naked eye (OH); the dirty pretty (MPLS); gnatiform
Rock · Metal
Doors 7:00pm
$10 ADV; $15 DOS
Friday, September 4 · 1 show
indifferent (TN); domesticatrix and the replicants (AL); viscacha; see no evil
Alternative
Doors 7:00pm
$15 ADV; $15 DOS
Saturday, September 12 · 1 show
sex mex (TX); plowshares; temporal autonomy
Egg punk · Garage Rock · Garage Punk
Doors 7:00pm
$10 ADV; $15 DOS
Friday, October 2 · 1 show
X-RAY ARCADE Presents: girl in a coma (TX); lunar moth (MAD); home going
Indie · Rock · Alternative
Doors 6:30pm
$15 ADV; $18 DOS
Friday, October 9 · 1 show
Saturday, October 10 · 1 show
coyote man; shadows taller than souls; dead ringers; the hypnic jerks
Progressive metal · Instrumental progressive rock
Doors 7:00pm
$10 ADV; $15 DOS
